If the event for which an AUX area is about to be allocated, does
not support setting up an AUX area, rb_alloc_aux() return -ENOTSUPP.
This error condition is being returned unfiltered to the user space,
and, for example, the perf tools fails with:
failed to mmap with 524 (INTERNAL ERROR: strerror_r(524, 0x3fff497a1c8, 512)=22)
This error can be easily seen with "perf record -m 128,256 -e cpu-clock".
The 524 error code maps to -ENOTSUPP (in rb_alloc_aux()). The -ENOTSUPP
error code shall be only used within the kernel. So the correct error
code would then be -EOPNOTSUPP.
With this commit, the perf tool then reports:
failed to mmap with 95 (Operation not supported)
which is more clear.
Cc: Pu Hou <bjhoupu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 2831480..ee97196 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ int rb_alloc_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb, struct perf_event *event,
int ret = -ENOMEM, max_order = 0;
if (!has_aux(event))
- return -ENOTSUPP;
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG) {
/*
--
1.8.3.1
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